Articles by gwintrob
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Training the Idea Muscle (sfalexandria.com)

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The Peptide Craze (erictopol.substack.com)

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An Interview with a YouTube Writer Behind 500M+ Views (humaninvariant.com)

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One Year with ChatGPT Pro as a First Hire (soundformovement.com)

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Four ways learning Econ makes people dumber re: future AI (lesswrong.com)

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Dwarkesh Patel's Second Interview with Ilya Sutskever (thezvi.substack.com)

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The Markets Aggregating Political Reality (freesystems.substack.com)

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Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts (ft.com)

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The obvious economics of preserving the Amazon (economist.com)

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Thinking through how pretraining vs. RL learn (dwarkesh.com)

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US Tech Market Treemap (caplocus.com)

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Advice on Conquering the Planet Arrakis (read.haus)

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Thoughts by a non-economist on AI and economics (lesswrong.com)

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Premium Butter Sales Surge Even as US Shoppers Cut Back Elsewhere (bloomberg.com)

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Thoughts on the AI Buildout (dwarkesh.com)

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Dwarkesh on Richard Sutton (twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp)

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The Honesty Tax (theargumentmag.com)

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A Top Mexican Cartel Smuggles Fentanyl to the U.S. (nytimes.com)

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Lawyers are earning $30M and billing rates are soaring (bloomberg.com)

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SaaS 2.0 (benn.substack.com)

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Reading Abundance from China (afraw.substack.com)

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LLM Daydreaming (gwern.net)

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China's AI Gambit: Code as Standards (chinatalk.media)

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Freedom's Forge: How WWII's Industrial Mobilization Model Can Win the AI Race (gwintrob.com)

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Can We Afford Large-Scale Solar PV? (construction-physics.com)

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Octopus Energy's software platform is emerging from parent's shadow (ft.com)

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Show HN: Summarize – I built a tool to tackle my reading list (summarize.stream)

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I have slightly longer timelines than some of my guests (dwarkesh.com)

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Power Failure: The downfall of General Electric (gwintrob.com)

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The Dawn of Liquid Content (genarrative.substack.com)

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Burrito Now, Pay Later (enterprisevalue.substack.com)

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I Used AI to Save My Life in 77 Prompts: A Debrief (hardmodefirst.xyz)

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I vibecoded facepaint.lol: an AI photo editor using Gemini (gwintrob.com)

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Hardening California's homes: Can CA build to resist wildfire? (calmatters.org)

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AI Action Plan Database (aiactionplan.org)

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AI Startup Gamma Reaches $50M in ARR, Profitability (upstartsmedia.com)

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More than one million readers (pragmaticengineer.com)

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Vibe-coding facepaint.lol with Gemini 2.0 Flash (gwintrob.com)

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The Moon Should Be a Computer (palladiummag.com)

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Where We Are Headed (hyperdimensional.co)

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Cloudflare is luring web-scraping bots into an 'AI Labyrinth' (theverge.com)

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If You're So Smart, Why Can't You Die? (desystemize.substack.com)

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Will Jesus Christ return in an election year? (ericneyman.wordpress.com)

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Most Externalities Are Solved with Technology, Not Coordination (maximum-progress.com)

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He Built His Own Encyclopedia. He Says Learning Everything Isn't Everything (every.to/superorganizers)

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Book List – Celebrity Book Recommendations (ultimatebooklist.com)

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Is McKinsey the key to our AI future? (charlesrubenfeld.substack.com)

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Charts That Show How Covid Changed Everything in March 2020 (nytimes.com)

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Google's Taara Hopes to Usher in a New Era of Internet Powered by Light (wired.com)

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Daily Papers – Hugging Face (huggingface.co)

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DeepSeek spreads across China with Beijing's backing (ft.com)

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Scientist Left OpenAI Last Year. His Startup Is Already Worth $30B (wsj.com)

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The Chess Circuit (lrb.co.uk)

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Six Thoughts on AI Safety (lesswrong.com)

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Expertise Is What We Want (color.com)

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TheTrueSize (thetruesize.com)

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Educational Obsolescence: Revolutionizing Learning with AI (zackkass.substack.com)

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Sharing the Latest Model Spec (openai.com)

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The Next 10 Years Will Be About the AI Agent Economy (nfx.com)

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Software engineering job openings hit five-year low? (pragmaticengineer.com)

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At the 'Wall Street of Eggs,' Demand Is Surging (wsj.com)

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SWE-Lancer: Can LLMs Earn $1M from Real-World Freelance Software Engineering? (huggingface.co)

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AI Personality Extraction from Faces: Labor Market Implications (ssrn.com)

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I use AI to predict the future (gwintrob.com)

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Network School 2025 (balajis.com)

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Prevalence of processed foods in major US grocery stores (nature.com)

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What would a world with AGI look like? (strangeloopcanon.com)

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The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s? (arxiv.org)

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An Economic Approach to Homer's Odyssey (econlib.org)

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YouTubers Are Selling Their Unused Video Footage to AI Companies (bloomberg.com)

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Turning $20 into $500 – Transforming Cursor into Devin in One Hour (yage.ai)

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AI Programmer, from Weights and Biases (medium.com/shawnup)

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Executive AI Assistant from LangChain (github.com/langchain-ai)

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Is AI Hitting a Wall? (strangeloopcanon.com)

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AI Tools I've Been Digging (gwintrob.com)

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Reasoning with O1 (deeplearning.ai)

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Is AI progress slowing down? (aisnakeoil.com)

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Show HN: A Directory of 500 HN Side Projects (hnsideprojects.com)

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Pippin, an AI Powered Unicorn (twitter.com/yoheinakajima)

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I Like Rocky Road (gwintrob.com)

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Distilabel Synthetic Data Generator on Hugging Face (huggingface.co)

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Google’s AI thinks I left a Gatorade bottle on the moon (edwardbenson.com)

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Agentic Tool Use Leaderboard (scale.com)

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AI Risk Repository (airisk.mit.edu)

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The Network School (balajis.com)

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Ground Responses for Gemini Models (cloud.google.com)

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Arc Prize Daily Puzzle (arcprize.org)

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[flagged] Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI (proofnews.org)

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AI-Driven Behavior Change Could Transform Health Care (time.com)

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Debt Ate Chicago (city-journal.org)

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AI's $600B Question (sequoiacap.com)

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Second-Hand Hallucinations: Investigating Perplexity's AI-Generated Sources (gptzero.me)

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Our ML-powered startup discovery pipeline (pioneer.app)

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Elephants call each other by name, study finds (theguardian.com)

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Same Energy is a visual search engine (same.energy)

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A Hater Accelerated My Startup's Timeline by a Year, Overnight (piratewires.com)

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3,900 Pages of Paul Klee's Personal Notebooks Are Now Online (2016) (openculture.com)

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Understanding the Planning of LLM Agents (arxiv.org)

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Liquid Prediction Markets are (finally) here (kalshi.com)

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Inventing the Perfect College Applicant (nymag.com)